The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-14
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years from participation in the places at.
with new system precluding the redistri-
button of such places in its interest, called
upon to surrender advantages which per.
verted partisanship had taught the Ameri-
can people belonged to success, and per-
turbed with a suspicion, always raised in
such an emergency, that their regrets in
scrupulously regarded, should receive due
acknowledgment and should confirm our
belief that there is sentiment among the
people better than desire to hold Office,
and patriotic impulse upon which may
safely rest the integrity of our institutions
and the strength and perpetuity of our
government
HIS VIEWS AS TO RECONCILIATION.
Concerning the question of his renomina-
ton, Mr.. Cleveland said:
sit seems to be the universal belief that
President must desire a denomination.
cannot understand how any man who has
served one term as President could have a
personal ambition in securing a second
term, with all its solemn responsibility, its
harassing duties and its constant and griev-
Gus exactions upon his mental and pbysi-
cal strength. His consent, it seems to me,
to accept q second term should rest only
upon his sense of solemn obligation asa
citizen and an appreciation of his duty
when called upon to bear his particular
part of the burden of citizenship. Thus
the Office can haYe-at least, Il can have
for memo personal allurements. IL my
administration during my term should be
useful to the people, should respond to the
wishes and expectations of those who
elected me, should justify the reason for
substituting in control of the Government
the party which / represent for that which
had administered the affairs of the people
for quarter OF century, my satisfaction
would be complete. l hope my present
term may be concluded with profit to the
country, and with as few mistakes on my
own part as are incident TO fallible human
nature"
MRS. CLEVELAND.
An hour and more had passed, and the
President had still, obviously, much work
TO do. / babe him good night after his in
vitat1on to come to the White House again
the next day ct 1 o'clock.
At that time again met Mrs. Cleveland
with the President. The day before she
had been dressed in some simple and most
becoming costume of white, but her hand;
some gown of this afternoon, as the other,
have not the knowledge to describe
Whatever Mrs. Cleveland wears or does
seems to become her, to the admiration
of every man or woman who has seen her.
1t is the conventional expression, even
among all the republicans that we are, to
speak of peculiarly stately and graceful
woman as "queenly." If Mrs Cleveland
had descended from line of gentle an
cestors-as perhaps she has-with its
origin lost in the mists of antiquity, her
simple ease in the place she fills as a bride
of only little over year and graduate of
a rural school of Just a year before could
not be more graceful and grateful. All
this is enthusiasm, but it is a sentiment
which is very clearly that of everybody
who has met her.
The White House is in the throes of its
annual furnishing. and Mrs. Cleveland is
giving it her perso nal attention. Four
portraits had newly been hung in the great
East Room, and Mrs. Cleveland's quick eye
saw that there was grisvous fault. "Why,
Mr. President" she said, "they have placed
Jefferson and Lincoln so that they turn
their backs to each otherm So she ar
ranged it forthwith that the gaze of Wash
ineton and his noble wife, of the great
Democratic commoner and of the martyred
President, should be directed toward the
center of the room, and not that two OF
them toward opposite windows.
When we were again alone the President
spoke of all this, and when l referred to
the absorption of his work. There are
duties to be DONE" he said, "and I must
do them. 1t has happened that my life
has been q laborious one always, with
practically DO recreation. / am now fifty
one years old. When my prof essionalla-
bors had secured to me something of
competency and the right and opportunity
for leisure, | was called upon to perform
any which had pertained to my private
life. AS you know, the duties at Albany
were hardly less exacting in their nature
perhaps only in their extent-than those
of this Office. / have now come to time
of life, and particularly to an epoch IN my
life, when should gladly welcome leisure
and freedom from responsibility. l may
say / have just begun to live in all that Is
best and truest in life"
When l alluded to the possibility that
the coming Presidential campaign might
still, nevertheless, find him exposed TO its
anxieties and responsibilities. he said:
THE aspersions, the Misrepresentation,
the ISLANDERS as to motives, as to acts, as TO
purposes-wbat mere allurement OF con-
tinued Office could entice one facing all
these, and knowing just what they
mean"
but" suggested, IF you pursue the
course you did at Albany, all that will not
effect you, so far at least, as outward indl-
cations COZ"
"For myself, it is true" the President
replied, "the excitement and the require
ments of a campaign would make the diff
feren &c In nay daily walk. l should pur-
sue the course of to day and of yesterday
and of the day before that, and of ali days
since l came here. But can only repeat
to you with full sense of what the words
imply, that l can understand no tempta-
ton and no reason, except his sense of his
obligation as citizen, which could per.
suade a President to desire a second
| term
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